Mr. Seamus McCarthy:

I am disappointed that some of the controls that really should have been in place were not. Systems are constantly being improved and one of the things we do in the course of the audit of appropriation accounts, or accounts of an agency such as SEUPB, would be to supply a management letter where we have identified insufficient controls or where specified controls have not been applied. We regularly correspond with clients and suggest to them that they need to make improvements and close off gaps. It is a great disappointment and is one of the reasons we wanted to bring this to the attention of the committee. It is certainly something that happened a long time ago; there has been a lot of water under the bridge.